Question: It is a well-known fact that our mind can depict certain images and figures. Based on this, you can convince yourself with regard to anything and sometimes it seems that you have exited yourself and felt a spiritual feeling.

How can we avoid deluding ourselves and falling into self-pride? How can we discover whether what we feel is indeed a spiritual attainment?

Answer: There is no way you can do it. Only the group can save you from such situations. When you nullify yourself with regard to others, when you connect to them and help everyone else, you balance yourself, present a zero on your level, and advance.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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Question: Can we develop our sensitivity? Is it possible?

Answer: We can develop our sensitivity only under the influence of the Upper Light; call it the Creator or the Surrounding Light. No force in our world can help us do that. The Upper Light created us and gave birth to us.

It develops us, and we can spur its impact on us at any time, but before we do that, we must understand how to do it. The wisdom of Kabbalah teaches us how.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/21/16

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Question: What is the group if there is none else besides Him? Do the group, the friends, and I exist? If everything comes from the Creator even without the group, what is the point of the group if, in fact, there is no group, no teacher, nothing, and no one? How can I not be confused and mix corporeal and spiritual means?

Answer: The best thing is to study and the Light will clear away the clouds.

Question: I want to come to the group, but the Creator keeps a feeling, a certain fear and insecurity in me, and keeps me solitary. I don’t understand the rationale in His actions. He wants me to correct myself, but doesn’t let me do so?!

Answer: It is so you will make the efforts.
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The entrance to the land of Israel is an ascent to the level of the implementation of freewill. The 40 years of wandering in the desert before entering the land of Israel, means being in certain desires called Bina, which is a high level, but the freedom of will is implemented there on a very weak, we can even say a child’s level – just do as you are told and everything will be all right.

The state of land of Israel represents the worst place in the world, the most terrible, hated place, causing everyone constant squabbles and fury, the land which was said to swallow those who live in it. But if you realize this desire (land – Eretz, from the word “Ratzon” – desire) correctly, you reveal the Creator in it.

In principle, a person who moves from the inner state “desert” to the spiritual state “land of Israel” rises to the bigger egoistic desires and can implement his freedom of will on the next, heavier level. The terrible problems and opposition between good and evil are revealed on this level and he must solve these problems within himself.

Upon entering the land of Israel, a person discovers new depths and new miasmas in him. He is obliged to examine them and choose love over hatred, which is very difficult because he needs to pay for it with his “animal” freedom.

Comment: The entire drama unfolds in front of the people. For example, Moses knows that he won’t enter the land of Israel, but he sends his children there.

My Response: Of course, it is a frightening state when you were ready to go with your people, but you are not allowed to. What will happen to them? You don’t know. You release them and they become independent from that moment.

Moses led people through the desert. The desert is much lower level than the land of Israel because all the contradictions revealed within a person in the desert were quite insignificant relative to the next level.

Besides, Moses was in the desert with them as an intermediary between the people and the Creator, meaning the system of governance. However, this system no longer exists on the border with the land of Israel. It is revealed before us in such a way. These really are difficult states. Unfortunately, we understand them only on our material level, not in the Kabbalistic sense.
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From KabTV Program “The Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/10/16

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At any point of our spiritual state there are two ways. Therefore the phrase “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse” (Deuteronomy, 11:26) is repeated many times in the Torah.

This phrase is relevant at any given time because people are given freewill. A man is a creature that understands, feels, knows, and is able to realize the freedom of choice.

If at every moment of his existence he doesn’t see that there are two ways in front of him and he isn’t certain which of them is a blessing and which is a curse, then he is not a man but an animal that is urged forward by evolutionary development as a stick prodding him from behind.

But he considers himself a man because he is in concealment, and he doesn’t even realize that he doesn’t decide anything by himself. He’s  like a marionette in the hands of a puppeteer.

Therefore the words “Behold, I set before you today a blessing and a curse” are addressed only to a person, who through the study and implementation of Kabbalah, has reached an understanding of the paths that are in front of him: a blessing and a curse, and he can choose only one of them. He doesn’t have another alternative if he is at the level of implementing freewill. And if he doesn’t realize it, he is not a man.

Therefore, it is written about all the people in the world that they are like animals, apart from those who, with the help of Kabbalah, reach the level of freewill.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 8/10/16

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Question: A student receives all the Light of his soul through the teacher. Is the teacher the source of it, instead of the world of infinity?

Answer: If my soul, the teacher’s soul, developed before your soul and you happen to be my student, you receive from me according to the spiritual hierarchy. As my student, you are my spiritual child. The system of the souls is mutually connected. The souls that have undergone their correction partially or fully and have ascended to a certain level conduct the Light to the other souls.

Everything is arranged this way in a sequence. On one hand, you add your ego to me, and, on the other hand, thanks to your ego, I conduct the Upper Light to you. Then you also conduct the Upper Light to someone.

In fact you are already doing it but not consciously.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/7/16

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Question: Is a person responsible for his thoughts?

Answer: From the point of view of the wisdom of Kabbalah, a person is not responsible for anything because the Creator can substitute his deeds, thoughts, and intentions. So we don’t evaluate a person according to his state, but only according to his efforts and intentions. Moreover, these efforts are measured individually.

For example, you can lift 50 kilograms, while I can only lift 5 kilograms. Everything is measured relative to the person’s ability. It is also the same thing in the wisdom of Kabbalah. But we cannot evaluate our spiritual movement and passage through different states correctly, nor can we do this regarding those around us.

But in fact, everything is measured precisely within a spiritual network of forces. So, a person cannot know either his state or his precise level, even more so, he cannot know that of others.

Question: Is it possible to say that bad thoughts cause harm to a person, while good thoughts help him?

Answer: It could also be the opposite. Bad thoughts can rapidly bring a person to the recognition of evil, personal insignificance, humility, and uncertainty and compel him to turn toward the Upper Light. The wisdom of Kabbalah doesn’t evaluate a person as we would generally evaluate him in our world: where one is a good person because he is diligent, speaks the truth, and so on. The wisdom of Kabbalah evaluates a person only according to his intention, according to his longing!

Comment: But his intention is hidden to those around him….

Answer: That is why Kabbalah is called the wisdom of the hidden.

Question: So how is it possible to assess whether a person is good or bad?

Answer: There is no way! Suppose one student sleeps during a lesson, while another arrives alert after resting, understands everything, and asks questions. We cannot evaluate a person according to these criteria especially since we don’t know the inner potential that exists within each of us. We only evaluate a person within a group to the extent that he actually invests more or less effort.

Question: In the wisdom of Kabbalah, is it necessary to justify a person from the start?

Answer: Yes. We do not know the path of a person in this world. Sometimes a student may stagnate for years, be confused, mumble something, and then suddenly make a breakthrough all at once. It is impossible to say anything from the start, because it could be that he was waiting all these years for the moment that a giant personal system of gears to arrange themselves and connect such that he became integrated in a collective common contact with them and begin to ascend.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/21/16

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Question: The upper force is interested in creation making contact with Him. He knows how to prod us by striking at our nature (the desire to receive) so we will turn to Him. After all, when things are good for us, we don’t remember Him.

But there is another option, when we consciously begin to turn to Him ourselves without waiting for blows. How can I do this?

Answer: There are a number of fundamental means through which we can initiate our exposure to the higher power: studying according to the sources, the group in which we learn and realize this methodology, disseminating the wisdom of Kabbalah, and organizing all of humanity to get closer to the upper force.

Question: So by being present for a lesson and studying the material, do we also call on the Upper Light?

Answer: Without a doubt! After several hundred hours like this, a person will necessarily get a feeling of internal changes. He will begin to see the world through his inner vision as he comes into contact with the upper force and begins to be clothed by it.

Question: When we begin to unite between us in a group, it requires our efforts and these are also blows to the ego, but conscious ones. What is the difference between the first and second options? It is when the Creator strikes me, and then when I apparently strike myself.

Answer: First, you don’t strike yourself and you choose this path.

It can be thorny, not particularly pleasant, but you choose it consciously. And you can convince yourself that this is imperative not only to escape suffering, but because you want to be an Adam (Man)!

You want to choose a path of spiritual growth while still living in this world in order to feel the upper world.

Here you have the opportunity to begin to work on yourself, to bring yourself closer to the eternal and perfect source and become like it. Moreover, this is something that is attained in this life.

Therefore, no matter what you may do in this world, it cannot compare with the same result you would attain through implementing the wisdom of Kabbalah.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 8/21/16

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Torah, Deuteronomy 17:18 – 17:19: And it will be, when he sits upon his royal throne, that he shall write for himself two copies of this Torah on a scroll from [that Torah which is] before the Levitic kohanim. And it shall be with him, and he shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord, his God, to keep all the words of this Torah and these statutes, to perform them.

Each person should be a king in order to appear before the upper King, the Creator. For that, he must have procured two upper lights, two special restrictions, the Cohens and Levites (the right and left lines), and in terms of Hassadim and from the standpoint of Hochma.

With both hands, meaning in two lines, he should accept everything that is given to him from above and react correctly to it.

A king in a person is the Keter (Crown) that accepts the upper force and transforms himself through all of his other desires and qualities. In other words, the connection with the Creator extends to all people through the person receiving the upper nature.

As it is written, “He shall write for himself two copies of this Torah,” meaning that he should write on his desires so that they will be formed correctly in accordance with the upper system

In “He shall read it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear the Lord, his God,” to read means to explore one’s desires more and more deeply within a constantly evolving egoism, rewritten with new points and signs. This is endless work until the complete correction of a person as long as he exists in this world, going through reincarnation after reincarnation.

He keeps reading the same book because the Torah describes the depth of our corrections until we completely finish the job.

Moreover, what we have in mind is not reading the text, but that everyone should write the Torah scrolls on their hearts, in other words, to form all of your desires in accordance with the upper laws of convergence, connection, up to love.
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From KabTV’s “Secrets of the Eternal Book” 9/5/16

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Question: Is it possible to say that the worldview of a person who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah correctly is similar to the approach of a scientist who knows that his egoism inserts errors into measurements?

Answer: Someone who studies the wisdom of Kabbalah begins to work with himself correctly, with his egoism and with the quality of the Light, meaning with absolute altruism. He puts the two forces, the force of the Light and the force of the ego, one against the other and begins to gather new forms of existence in life within them where these two opposing forces are integrated together. A person exists between them as the middle line. That is how he builds himself.

Therefore, the wisdom of Kabbalah is a very practical science. This means that to the same degree that a person attains the positive force and the negative force of this world, he builds himself, his world, and what is called the Temple, in a connection between the negative force and the positive force, and creates a place called his soul within which he discovers the Creator.
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From the Kabbalah Lesson in Russian 9/25/16

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